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“THE PAINT I USE IS RONAN’S COACH COLORS”
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CALDER, ALEXANDER.Thee items, each Signed “Sandy” or in full, to MoMA
registrar Dorothy Dudley:Two Autograph Letters * Autograph Note.Together 3 pages, 4to;
condition generally good.
Np, 1954-65
[2,000/3,000]
26 December 1954:“Balance this on the
point
of your (so far) stabile.
“
Blow at it, and I hope it will clear, to make the whole turn.”
27 October 1965: “I hereby
give
to Dorothy Dudley the ‘Little Yellow Panel’—to repair it, and to
own
it.”
16 November 1965, written in the lower and right margins of Dudley’s letter to him, on “The
Museum of Modern Art” stationery, asking what type of paint she should use to restore her Calder
work, “Wall Mobile with Yellow Panel” [
Form Against Yellow,
1936?]: “The paint I use is
Ronan’s Coach Colors—Sign Craft Red, Bulletin Blue, etc. . . . I don’t use much green any more—
but that you can probably mix.”